Bike Club

The building is organized as a progression from porch to pavilion to patio to trail.

At its center, the pavilion becomes Bike Club’s shared living room: an open, flexible space for students, volunteers, staff, events, bike assembly, and everyday gathering. Dedicated classrooms, offices, storage, and workshop areas support it, while wide circulation paths and large overhead doors allow bikes to move easily through the building.

The architecture continually pulls the landscape into that experience. Natural light fills the pavilion, and expansive glazing frames the woods beyond. Glass overhead doors open the room to the patio, softening the boundary between inside and outside and extending activity into the landscape. From there, the sequence continues directly toward the trail.

Material decisions reinforce that relationship. Industrial materials suited to Bike Club’s hands-on work are balanced by wood and warmer elements where people gather and touch the building. Trees removed during construction were reused as bench tops, while scrap metal became rails, gates, fire pits, table bases, and the portal leading from the patio toward the woods.

The result is not simply a building beside the trails. The architecture makes the movement toward them part of the building itself.